[OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory drains away....

Daniel Kjar dkjar at elmira.edu
Fri Nov 4 13:13:50 UTC 2011 

pmap seems to give me exactly what top tells me.

There just doesn't look like 32gb of stuff running (more like 5gb 
max)...  although I have to laugh at how much memory Firefox seems to 
need....

  9409 eagle3     17  59    0  765M  739M sleep    3:24  0.37% VirtualBox
   9413 eagle3     21  39    0  291M  129M sleep    1:54  0.51% firefox
   2589 eagle2     21  59    0  245M  150M sleep    0:34  0.01% java
   5357 eagle2      1  59    0  112M   58M sleep    0:01  0.00% nautilus
   4179 eagle3      1  58    0  107M   98M sleep    1:03  0.03% Xnewt
   4470 eagle3      1  49    0  106M   39M sleep    0:01  0.00% nautilus
   3423 gdm         1  59    0  102M   35M sleep    0:00  0.00% 
gnome-settings-
   5063 eagle2      1  59    0   98M   90M sleep    0:33  0.00% Xnewt
   3430 gdm         1  59    0   91M   26M sleep    0:57  0.01% 
gdm-simple-gree
   4480 eagle3      1  59    0   91M   21M sleep    0:03  0.00% isapython2.6
   4467 eagle3      1  59    0   90M   24M sleep    0:01  0.00% gnome-panel
   5354 eagle2      1  59    0   90M   26M sleep    0:01  0.00% gnome-panel
   4499 eagle3      1  59    0   86M   19M sleep    0:21  0.01% 
mixer_applet2
   5388 eagle2      1  59    0   86M   19M sleep    0:15  0.01% 
mixer_applet2
   4462 eagle3      1  59    0   86M   18M sleep    0:00  0.00% 
gnome-settings-
   4486 eagle3      1  49    0   86M   18M sleep    0:00  0.00% trashapplet
   3429 gdm         1  59    0   85M   18M sleep    0:01  0.00% 
gnome-power-man
   5371 eagle2      1  59    0   84M   17M sleep    0:00  0.00% wnck-applet
   4485 eagle3      1  59    0   84M   17M sleep    0:01  0.00% wnck-applet
   4466 eagle3      1  59    0   84M   17M sleep    0:00  0.00% metacity
   5360 eagle2      1  59    0   83M   17M sleep    0:01  0.00% 
gnome-power-man
   4471 eagle3      1  59    0   83M   16M sleep    0:01  0.00% 
gnome-power-man
   5373 eagle2      1  59    0   79M   13M sleep    0:00  0.00% trashapplet
   3428 gdm         1  59    0   78M   13M sleep    0:00  0.00% metacity
    637 mysql       9  59    0   53M   19M sleep    0:19  0.01% mysqld
   2452 root       23  59  -10   52M   26M sleep    0:45  0.02% java
   5362 eagle2      1  12   19   49M   33M sleep    0:02  0.00% 
updatemanagerno
   4473 eagle3      1  12   19   49M   33M sleep    0:02  0.00% 
updatemanagerno
   3367 root        4  59    0   47M   36M sleep   13:58  0.17% Xorg
   3332 root        1  59    0   39M   20M sleep    0:20  0.01% Xnewt


On 11/ 4/11 09:01 AM, Michael Schuster wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 13:56, Daniel Kjar<dkjar at elmira.edu>  wrote:
>> Just serving sunray sessions but this happens whether anyone is logged on
>> (none last night) or not.  If somebody fires up something like a virtual
>> machine it just speeds up the process.
> hmm ... (haven't done this in a while ...) I'd suggest you
> periodically (once every 10', perhaps)  'pmap' all processes and see
> which grow most, and then look at those in detail (perhaps using pmap
> -x, or starting those with LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libumem.so ...)
>
> I'm sure other people have better ideas.
>
> HTH
> Michael
>> On 11/ 4/11 08:53 AM, Michael Schuster wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the obvious question to ask: what's the machine doing?
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 13:49, Daniel Kjar<dkjar at elmira.edu>    wrote:
>>>> I have always had this problem and it has never been resolved.  Does
>>>> anyone
>>>> else see  this and is there a cure?
>>>>
>>>> I have a v40z (although all of my boxes do it) 32gb ram 4 dual core 885s.
>>>>   When you restart the server it shows about 27 gb free.  Over 12 hours
>>>> this
>>>> slowly degrades to about 1gb free and I start to notice a slow down.
>>>>   Once
>>>> this drops down to 400mb stuff starts to really drag.  Setting the max
>>>> zfs
>>>> arc use does nothing.  This is using TOP.
>>>>
>>>> If you look at the gnome performance monitor it will say you are only
>>>> using
>>>> 2gb of ram yet there is degradation in performance (I assume for slow
>>>> memory
>>>> clearing and reuse).
>>>>
>>>> CPU states: 94.3% idle,  1.3% user,  4.4% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0%
>>>> swap
>>>> Kernel: 7755 ctxsw, 139 trap, 13034 intr, 22379 syscall, 120 flt, 136
>>>> pgin
>>>> Memory: 32G phys mem, 988M free mem, 16G total swap, 16G free swap
>>>>
>>>> and this dropped below 1gb while I was typing this message.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Dr. Daniel Kjar
>>>> Assistant Professor of Biology
>>>> Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
>>>> Elmira College
>>>> 1 Park Place
>>>> Elmira, NY 14901
>>>> 607-735-1826
>>>> http://faculty.elmira.edu/dkjar
>>>>
>>>> "...humans send their young men to war; ants send their old ladies"
>>>>         -E. O. Wilson
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>> Dr. Daniel Kjar
>> Assistant Professor of Biology
>> Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
>> Elmira College
>> 1 Park Place
>> Elmira, NY 14901
>> 607-735-1826
>> http://faculty.elmira.edu/dkjar
>>
>> "...humans send their young men to war; ants send their old ladies"
>>         -E. O. Wilson
>>
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Dr. Daniel Kjar
Assistant Professor of Biology
Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Elmira College
1 Park Place
Elmira, NY 14901
607-735-1826
http://faculty.elmira.edu/dkjar

"...humans send their young men to war; ants send their old ladies"
	-E. O. Wilson

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